The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

Chapter 65 Harvester

Three days later is the day when the spirit is revealed. Two funeral processions walk slowly. Paper money is like white moths flying in the sky. The sound of suona is heart-breaking. The bereaved men and women walking on the left and right follow each other and cry.

The sky shook, and Zhao Tong walked in the middle holding the coffin.

"Whose land is there in the wormwood? There are no wise men or fools to gather souls. How can ghost uncles urge each other, and human life must be hesitant?" The elegy written by Li Yannian was sad and desolate, and Zhao Tao sang along with it again and again.

"Well done, big brother"

Every time "Hello Brothers" passes by a construction site, the young men will lay down sacrifices along the way. The funeral procession has to stop again and again, and Zhao Tong will also bow and salute together with the bereaved family.

"Brother, the prince is personally seeing you off, you should close your eyes!" A middle-aged man shouted loudly.

"Brother, the prince has already arranged your family's funeral arrangements, so you can go ahead with peace of mind!"

When Zhao Tao heard the simple words of the villagers, he was both ashamed and moved. His fellow villagers left, and he just did what he should do. Not only did the villagers not blame him, but they were grateful. His little kindness made them happy.

Satisfied.

Zhao Tong took the dead men to the cemetery until the sun went down before returning to the house. "Zheng Lu, we built canals and paved roads and occupied the tenants' fields. What did they say?" Zhao Tong changed his clothes, washed briefly and then came to find him.

He asked questions.

"Second Master, most people think that we are building canals and paving roads for their own good. They don't say anything. Only a few people are dissatisfied with this!" Now Zhao Tong has established his authority in the house with both kindness and power, and no one dares to challenge him anymore.

When a child looked at it, Zheng Lu looked at his face and answered carefully.

"How did you do it?" Zhao Tong asked again expressionlessly.

"Second Master, the land is our own. If I want to take it, I can take it. Besides, the road canal is next to his field, so everything will be easier in the future. How dare they threaten us?" Zheng Lu replied.

"Humph, you are being stupid. Although the land is ours, it is not all ours after it has been rented by others. Now that we have occupied other people's fields and affected their harvests, you are still threatening them. Is this the right thing in the world?

"Zhao Tong patted the table and said.

"Second Master, we have invested more than 100,000 yuan to open roads and build canals. If we make further compensation, it will cost a lot of money. I don't know how many years of rent collection it will take to recover the capital. Second Master, please think again!"

"Zheng Lu quickly explained.

"I know that you are loyal to the government, and for my sake, a few dollars may be just a drop in the ocean to us, but to these tenants, it is an income from one acre of land a year. They also have to pay various taxes, and the rest

There are only a few of them. These lands can be said to be their lives!" Zhao Tong said, "You will make statistics tomorrow to see whose land is occupied and how much. The rent will be reduced according to this year's harvest. The young crops will be ruined.

We must also compensate according to the price, and don’t let people scold us behind our backs for being rich and unkind because of these things!”

"Young man, I understand. I will do it immediately according to the second master's instructions!" Zheng Lu bowed and said.

"Zheng Lu, you are temporarily acting as the chief steward. When considering things, don't just look at the small profits in front of you. Now we see that we have suffered some losses. If our fields are not cultivated, then no matter how much land we have, it will be a wasteland.

We can't charge a penny, so we can only develop if we retain people and let them really use them for us!" Zhao Tong saw that Zheng Lu was a little unconvinced, and if he didn't explain it clearly, he would just be perfunctory, or maybe he would do it later.

If he does something negative, I have to talk to him more.

The matter on the construction site was finally settled. The two super killers were handed over to Huang Jingchen. The wine shop was watched by You Jianxi and his uncle. Zhao Tong finally found time to be busy with another matter of his.

The wheat harvest season will be here in two months, and he has to complete another of his 'inventions' - a semi-automatic harvester before then.

Zhao Tong is currently researching a harvesting machinery that uses animal power. This harvester is not only simple in structure and light to pull, but also mostly made of wood. It uses livestock as the power source. It has fast operation speed, high quality, and relatively low maintenance.

Simple, especially suitable for use in today's era.

"This wheel should look like this, right? Why didn't I study it carefully at the time?" Zhao Tong painfully recalled the thing he had seen in his previous life. It was a pile he saw in the warehouse when he was the farm manager.

The rags were the most advanced agricultural equipment introduced during the farm's early days, but when it was his turn, they had long been eliminated by more advanced mechanized equipment. This was also thanks to the previous field directors who had persevered for many years to carry forward the hard work of the troops.

The simple tradition was not disposed of as junk early, which allowed them to have a relationship with Zhao Tong.

Regretful that there was nowhere to take the medicine, Zhao Tong could only rely on his knowledge of mechanics to try to restore the old animal-powered harvester. There was no physical reference, no data to learn from, and what was even more annoying were two completely different measurement standards. Zhao Tong

Relying on his own memory, he first drew the general appearance of the harvester on paper, and then broke it down into its major parts one by one. Fortunately, he was familiar with the principles of modern machinery, so he knew which major parts were needed, and finally divided the big parts into parts.

Components are broken down anatomically into more small parts.

"Damn it, this is not an imitation, it's just a redesign!" Zhao Tong looked at the pile of drawings he drew on the table and more waste paper scattered on the ground, and said to himself without tears,

The key to machinery is that it fits perfectly and all parts can be linked accurately. As long as one part is not suitable, it has to be demolished and started all over again. He has stayed up for three days and finally completed the preliminary design. Whether it can be used will not be known until the prototype is made.

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"Ah" Zhao Tong yawned for a long time, and his eyelids twitched uncontrollably, "I'm still a child. I need enough sleep to grow taller. No matter what, I'll go to bed first and test it tomorrow.

Well, they say practice brings true knowledge!" Zhao Tong couldn't bear Brother Zhou's call, so he climbed into bed with his clothes on, comforted himself and went to play chess with him.

Another seven days passed. On a sunny morning, Zhao Tu came to the workshop in the mansion again and ordered everyone to put all the finished parts together and assemble them according to his requirements. The structure of this thing is not complicated, and soon it was ready.

A strange-looking thing that was more than seven feet long, more than five feet wide, and more than four feet high appeared in front of everyone.

"The second master is making a sedan, right?" Zhang Liujin whispered to Zhang Erbao, the foreman next to him.

"No, I think it's a cart, but you didn't see the wheels underneath!" Zhang Erbao shook his head and said.

"Well, the boss is right. I have long thought that this is the carriage designed by the second master. Look, I even carved flowers around it!" Carpenter Qian Zhuang said with a smile.

"You don't know it at first glance. This is obviously a chariot. Otherwise, there are a few discs in front. They are all bladed. If you run on the battlefield, you can cut off a horse's hoof!" Blacksmith

Cao Shuangcheng curled his lips and said.

"Old Cao, you will die if you don't brag. If you use this to fight, where can the man hide and not let the arrow shoot him into a hedgehog?" Zhang Liujin said, looking like you are an idiot.

Zhao Tong didn't want to listen to a few guys guessing. He checked all the parts of the harvester again. The reel, harvester, cutter, conveyor belt, and transmission rod were all connected in place, but these craftsmen

On the basis of his own design, he added his own creativity to make the harvester look more nondescript. The wooden frame was not only painted, but also carved with several large peonies and traced with gold powder; Zhang Liujin may feel that he

Cao Shuangcheng exerted the least effort. Not only did he ring a few exquisite small copper bells on the front of the car, he also decorated the wheels with copper sheets. Cao Shuangcheng was even more outstanding. He did the most work here, and every iron piece was polished by him.

, shining, looking like mirrors. Zhao Tao wiped his sweat. Fortunately, he didn't call a few silversmiths and jade craftsmen to get involved, otherwise he might have to add something.

"Don't make any noise. You will know what this is later. Come over here and push it a few steps!" After the inspection was completed, the main components were all where they should be. Zhao Tongsong shouted to several people.

"Okay, I'd say it's a car, why don't you push it?" Zhang Erbao said and asked the guys to stand up and push the harvester in a circle in the yard, making a squeaking noise.

Afterwards, after some running-in, the sound gradually became quieter. Zhao Tong lay on the frame and looked at the coordination of various parts. It was running normally and everything that should be moved could be moved.

"I'm glad you go to the stables and take the horse to the garden, and we'll get this guy to the garden too!" The first test went well, and Zhao Tong gained confidence and immediately ordered the field operation.

"Yes!" Jian Xi has been watching from the side and did not come forward. Although he didn't know that what the prince had made was a magical thing, he knew that it must be something that could make a lot of money. Otherwise, the prince would not work so hard.

Woolen cloth!

The group of people carried them to the garden. Zhao Tao took a closer look and saw that it was already full of red flowers and green willows after more than half a month, and it was full of spring. However, he had no intention of admiring it. After walking around for half a circle, he noticed a "string of reds".

Now they are about the same height as wheat, and they are planted in patches, so it is just right to use them for cutting.

"Second Master, what are you doing?" Seeing the prince leading a horse and dragging a monster into the flowers, the gardener Wang gave up and stood in front of him and said.

"Uncle Wang, these flowers don't look good. I'll cut them off and you can plant them again!" Zhao Tong pulled away from Lao Wang with a smile, patted the horse's butt and said.

Lao Wang, who started to stamp his feet and sigh in distress, opened his eyes wider and wider. He saw the monster entering the flowers. Wherever he passed, a row of three-foot-wide bouquets were cut off one after another. They spun around on the conveyor belt and fell to the ground in a row.

A neat floral ribbon.

"Yeah! It's successful!" The harvester turned twice among the flowers and brought down a large bouquet. Zhao Tong checked that as long as the height of the cutter is readjusted, it can be used to harvest wheat fields.

"Second Master, what are you doing?" The craftsmen all understood, but they just didn't know what to call it. Zhang Erbao asked stutteringly.

"This is called a rice and wheat harvester!" Zhao Tong said with a proud grin. He kicked off the era of agricultural mechanization in the Song Dynasty.